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09/04/26
Medical devices. Package tracking. Ride services. The through line connecting those Memphis companies is a downtown nonprofit that has spent nearly a decade making the first phone call, writing the first check and sitting in the first pitch meeting. Epicenter, founded in 2017, works as educator, early investor and support system for founders across the…
09/04/26
Memphis football comes home Saturday, Sept. 5 at 6 p.m. against Arkansas State, and the building waiting on the crowd is not the one that closed out last season. Saturday is the first game since the completion of the Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium renovation that started in 2024. The most obvious change is the new…
09/04/26
A Memphis headquartered bank is about to show up on the front of Tennessee jerseys. First Horizon has extended its partnership with Tennessee Athletics and will become the program’s first ever jersey patch sponsor, a reported $120 million agreement over 10 years according to the Memphis Business Journal. The patch spans football plus volleyball, soccer,…
09/03/26
Something new is rolling onto the streets of Memphis. The Memphis Area Transit Authority has welcomed a new fleet of buses, 12 to start, the first visible piece of an effort of nearly $50 million to modernize public transportation across the city. Interim CEO Rodrick Holmes says the investment was a long time coming. “We…
08/28/26
Blog 4 Preview – Grizzlies Prep Grizzlies Prep has officially opened the doors on its new campus in South Memphis, giving the growing charter school more room to expand its STEM programming. The school, which carries the Memphis Grizzlies name and mission into the classroom, has built its reputation around pairing rigorous academics with the…
08/28/26
Blog 3 Preview – Food Aid Memphis Cares, a partnership between the city, Memphis City Council, and United Way of the Mid South, is putting up to $100,000 toward food assistance for residents hit hardest by last weekend’s severe storms. “For many Memphis families, days without power also meant losing groceries they simply can’t afford…
08/28/26
Blog 2 Preview – Road Trip Ranking Add another line to the resume. A new Travel + Leisure ranking has named Memphis the best road trip destination in the entire country, putting the city ahead of far bigger metro areas on this year’s list. The ranking points to Memphis’s light traffic, easy highway access, and…
08/28/26
Blog 1 Preview – The Lorraine Memphis civil rights history is opening this year’s Indie Memphis Film Festival. “The Lorraine,” a new documentary from director Sam Pollard, has been selected as the festival’s opening night film for 2026. Pollard has spent decades building a body of work around pivotal moments in American civil rights history,…
08/21/26
Memphis is having a moment in gospel music. Lisa Knowles-Smith, 42, was the biggest winner at the 2026 Stellar Gospel Music Awards, taking home five trophies during the ceremony taped live at Charlotte’s Spectrum Center and hosted by Kirk Franklin. Four of Knowles-Smith’s wins came for her album Revival: Live in Dallas, recorded with The…
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